Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Marshall Field admits that Harvard isn't Joe College any more. Or at least that is the main idea of "Farewell to Harvard", a pictorial essay on the "recollections of a student about to go to war" recently published in The Chicago Sun's weekly supplement "Parade...
...will probably think he is being impudent. By the time several dozen men have said it, you will come to the conclusion that all Americans are 'fresh.' Yet to them it will be merely the normal conversational opening, just as you might say 'Lovely day, isn...
...Private Stephen J. Haretik of Cleveland. Sergeant O'Connell's theory: "In this war there is too much written about Zeros shot down and cruisers sunk and not enough about what soldiers think. We've glamorized, a thousand men, but after the thousandth hero the soldier isn't anything to write about; except to his intimates, nothing even to think about...
...starched uniform. "You are number 52," the voice laughed. Bloody 52, Vag shot back, silently. He shuffled from desk to desk, chilled as the dour, guarded faces nodded and smiled toothily. He started, then settled back sheepishly as a cold feminine hand clutched his. "All right now, this isn't going to hurt." She squeezed the blood from his finger onto the glass plate. He started. It was a dark, smooth red. Crimson in triumph flashing, Vag laughed to himself...
...lacks a sponsor. They'll shove in, instead, something else unsponsored, like "recorded interludes," movie gossip, or E. B. Rideout. If they sell the time, all well and good, but too often a perfectly good program will be shoved off the air at the drop of a whim. It isn't only swing music that suffers, either...